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It amazes me how infuriatingly full of themselves the rabid dead-enders for Hillary Clinton are. The most disturbing irony is that they are obsessed with insisting that the only way they'll "allow" (as if it's their right or something) Barack Obama to be the nominee is after they have their asses sufficiently kissed, and yet it is them, not Clinton herself, that makes the idea of ever voting for Hillary Clinton as palatable as eating my own dung.

I'm at the point where I really considered how profitable a market would be for selling "Hillary '08" pacifiers at the Denver convention. I don't understand how the Clintons themselves tacitly endorse the actions of their whiniest worshippers by not only refusing to condemn their making crap threats and demeaning Barack Obama but saying stupid things like how "catharsis" is needed by wasting a lot of time at the convention celebrating the person who lost the primary. The only reason I can't reflect on Hillary Clinton's ego is that a handful of whiny, infantile bloggers' and pundits' dwarf any she herself might have.

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Rick Warren, doing his best impression of a TV news interrogator, asked both candidates an interesting question: Which current member of the Supreme Court would they not have appointed.

For Obama, it was Clarence Thomas.

He was "not a strong enough jurist or legal thinker," Obama said.

McCain had four, two nominated by a Democrat and two by a Republican: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter, John Paul Stevens.

So, McCain believes that all four of the SCOTUS justices who most frequently disagree with the conservative majority shouldn't have been nominated. Got it.

You'd think, naturally, that McCain would have made this declaration during at least one of the confirmation votes for either Ginsburg, Breyer or Souter, all three of whom he voted in favor of confirming. But of course, you would then have to ignore the vitally important issue that McCain is allowed to vote three times in a row for Justices he personally feels shouldn't be on the bench because he was once a prisoner of war.

Looks like the tension between the Clinton and Obama camps hasn't cooled yet. Hillary's supporters want to put her name in at the convention for "catharsis." I suppose that's necessary for people whose egos prevent them from accepting the observable reality that they lost.

That's really it in a nutshell. I've written before that I've never seen a more stubborn candidate than Clinton- still refusing to accept that maybe, just maybe, not showing any remorse whatsoever for voting for the damn war might have caused her loss- and there's and even more stubborn and arrogant attitude present in her die-hard supporters. When Bill Bradely lost the primaries, he released his delegates, got a speech at the convention, and we moved on. When Howard Dean lost the primaries, he released his delegates, got a speech at the convention, and we moved on. When Hillary Clinton lost the primaries, she got (so far) an entire night of the convention devoted to her and her supporters still want to vote for her anyway. That's not moving on. When is the media going to pull their head out of their ass and start acknowledging that "catharsis" means "we want to make Obama look bad so we can feel better about ourselves?"

I'm both amused and annoyed with the parade of euphemisms for "whiny little babies" that have been tossed around here- be it "catharsis" (translated: we still think Hillary is better, accept that or we'll keep crying) or "unity" (translated: we still think Hillary is better, accept that or we'll keep crying) or whatever term will be tossed out next week to describe the whiny hordes who will only be placated when the actual candidate (just as a reminder, that's Obama) is cast as substandard to Hillary Clinton.

Jesus. My brother and I used to fight over toys and when our mom told us to give one back, we'd break it just to be mean. Then we turned eight.

I noted months ago, not that this was a really risky guess or anything, that a field as self-righteous and ego-centric as weblogging was going to bring forth a whole new generation of literate juveniles who are completely incapable of accepting that they were wrong about something.

There's a certain hatefulness you can see in their writing- the bulk of it framed in an arrogant and, frankly, offensive attitude toward Barack Obama vis-a-vis his electoral chances by smirking that, tee hee, of course Obama can win the election, but he'll definitely win it if Hillary Clinton is his running mate. As I joked earlier, it's the Nice White Lady concept. Obviously a young, less-experienced black man couldn't defeat someone as tough as Hillary Clinton just because he, you know, did.

Now, of course, we have the already-proven-as-laughable argument that John Edwards is responsible for Hillary not winning the nomination, because, once again, it's simply impossible to believe that she simply lost to a better candidate with a better campaign.

To sit here, today, and argue that the Clinton campaign was a superior machine done in by the low-handedness of Obama's team is a fascinating mixture of hypocrisy, ignorance, and insanity. And to continue to look at how inept and ineffective Clinton's campaign was as a rationale for daring to claim it would benefit Obama is nothing but the tantrums of small children who think screaming their heads off will get them their ice cream. After eight years of George W. Bush, America is desperate to have grown-ups in charge again. It's a shame that there are some so-called Democrats who don't want to be part of that.

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In the last two weeks, the major talking points from John McCain about the presidential race have been: Barack Obama is offering a lot of good advice about stuff, Barack Obama is very popular, Barack Obama visits other countries and knows what's going on in them, and Barack Obama is a lot younger than him. I'm at the point where I'm not exactly sure who John McCain is going personally planning on voting for.

I was in Las Vegas for the last four days, and it was one of those periods of time where you make a sarcastic joke about how you, ha ha ha, really hope nothing important happens, and then, of course, out of nowhere John Edwards announced he was cheating on his wife. There are a lot of liberal pundits and bloggers who are playing the "personal lives are nobody's business" card on this and I would like to make my solitary post on the whole story by saying that's so full of shit it's unbelievable. As others have already noted by the time I got back to my computer to write this, for Edwards to betray his dying wife is bad enough, and perhaps that in itself way have constitued a "private matter," but to be doing it during the same period of time that he was trying to run for president is abhorrent. This isn't even the equivalent of something; it was actually putting yourself over your country.

I am incredibly sad for Elizabeth Edwards in this, but my thoughts are more with former co-workers at the Center for American Progress who devoted countless months to volunteering for John Edwards and his work that has essentially been flushed in the crapper after this. And if there is one single person on this planet that Edwards owes a personal apology to, it's Amanda Marcotte, who endured two weeks of unforgivable abuse from the more prominent terrorists of right-wing punditry for, in Edwards's own words, "saying things he found personally offensive." Edwards threw Marcotte under a bus because she said a naughty word while he was busy getting some tail on the side. In the immortal words of the Dali Lama, Christ, what a fucking asshole.

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In short, Obama is nothing without the awesomeness of Hillary Clinton. Thus is the power of the Nice White Lady.

Hillary Clinton: because of course a black man can be president, but man, wouldn't a Nice White Lady make him a better one?

If Obama does pick Bayh, I really hope BooMan's synopsis is being overly pessimistic, because the idea that Clinton's people believing they can blackmail their way into an Obama White House is almost as odious as the more blatant threats from the more, to use the scientific term, batshit insane wings of the Clinton campaign.

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The right wing is at it again with their crusade to make it legal for pharmacists to not do their job, only this time they've got HHS in the works, complete with some language that would technically allow the sales clerk at Wal-Mart the right to refuse to sell you birth control pills. Of course, that would mean you could still afford them, since the White House also wants to go ahead and let insurance companies not even cover birth control to begin with.

At the rate we're going with the anti-choice lunacy currently in control of the government, it's only a matter of time before you can't buy a pack of condoms without a doctor's note. Oh, who the hell am I kidding? Making it hard for men to get anything related to controlling their reproductive functions? Cue the Twilight Zone music.

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The big hook for McCain is the fact that Obama supporters disgracefully smeared Bill and Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries. The McCain riposte to pushback from Obama supporters is "that's what you said about Bill and Hillary Clinton."

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The fairy tale has come home to roost. All the dirty work these folks did during the primaries to slime Bill and Hillary Clinton is now fodder for John McCain. Of course he was going to going dirty, ugly, negative and would race bait. The wonder is none of these folks realized that when they said and did anything about Bill and Hillary Clinton to favor Obama that all of it would come back to haunt Obama in the general election.

Everyone got that? Because the Obama campaign had the audacity to be upset about veiled racist attacks made against him in the primary, now it's already on the table for McCain to use. See, Obama only had one "race card" in his Magic: The Election deck, and he should have saved it for McCain. A smart candidate would have simply held off from responding to six months of suggesting that the black guy can't actually win.

Of course, back on Planet Earth, I guess it's cra-a-a-a-a-zy talk to, oh I don't know, suggest that maybe this could have been prevented by the Clinton campaign not making racially polarizing attacks against Barack Obama?

Armando and the rest of the baby brigade truly embody the most disgraceful and arrogant remnants of the Democratic Party. It's Obama's fault, you understand, that Clinton ran a disgraceful and shitty campaign. It's Obama's fault that he had to deal with racism in the election before he even became the nominee. And now, of course, it's Obama's fault that Hillary Clinton spent the last six weeks of a primary she was already statistically incapable of still winning having her surrogates practically write half of McCain's campaign ads for him.

Next week: as Obama selects someone other than Hillary Clinton to be his running mate, Armando explains that Obama's loss of the guaranteed 698 electoral votes Clinton would have brought to the ticket is his fault for not going back in his time machine and destroying every single video tape of Clinton publicly saying Obama isn't qualified to be president.

Update: Armando, calling me an "Obama supporter" (you know, the guy I never endorsed in the primary, never voted for in any election, nor ever given money to) declared that I am calling him and everyone who supports Clinton a racist. Hmm... pointing out that your opponents have used racial attacks against you means you're "playing the race card." Gosh, where have I heard that tantrum in the last 24 hours? Sorry, Armando, what was that you were saying about how you're not co-opting the McCain talking points?

His valiant stance in the war on straw aside, I find it very interesting that I said there were "veiled racist attacks against Obama in the primary" and Armando's response was to claim I was calling him, personally, a racist. I think that says a lot more about what he recognizes as a racially-based attack than he's trying to hide from.

Finally, I think his silly little snit about "hatred of all things Clinton" is as illogical as it is precious. No matter who wins in November, Hillary Clinton isn't going to be president. So what, exactly, would I give a shit about with her at this point?

Second Update: You know, I want to emphasize this because it really is astounding. This weekend, John McCain and his surrogates stole a news cycle claiming that Obama "played the race card" which, in essence, was a rhetorical argument about how the Obama campaign was accusing Republicans of racism- despite the fact that Obama had done no such thing. It's really amazing how over half the comments in Armando's thread up there are people saying the exact same thing. Just like John McCain, they turned the reality of a handful of Clintonites using racially-tinged arguments against Obama into some kind of fury over an accusation of blanket racism that no one has actually made. That Armando and his deranged followers are completely blind to this is a glowing example of why Clinton lost so much support in a primary that was supposed to be handed to her on a plate.